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Young boy in bucket hat and girl wearing garden gloves and leaning over planter beds

Young boy in bucket hat and girl holding cat on apartment balcony

"My foster mum — when I turned 16, COVID was happening — she wasn't super chill with a disease spreading around, so at 16, I moved out."

Woman in pink shirt holding spade over garden bed and smiling

"I think it's so important for every young person to have people in their world who care about them and support them,"
she said.

"One of the themes that we just kept hearing over and over again was a green space."
Outline of the garden plans with descriptions of each element

Seedlings on table with checkered table cloth, label reads beetroot

Young people gathered around table of seedlings listening to women speak in planting workshop

Man in striped shirt sits at desk speaking to journalist

"We know that the urban spaces which tend to have more hard materials, like asphalt and paving, heavy materials, tend to be warmer than the natural landscape counterparts,"
he said.

Man in striped shirt sits at desk looking at thermal image

"That's a big value."

"We can see that physiologically, and we can also see that in the way people respond to surveys."
Man in blue shirt and long hair in bun smiles with beach in background

"But really, what that is getting at is people's ability to feel purpose in life, and to be able to find a way of harnessing that and engaging it and being productive in their own way."
Young boy in bucket hat leaning over planter beds

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